Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy - Supplemental Materials

Chapters 11 & 12: Active Express ion Tasks: Two Chair Work for Conflict Splits; Empty Chair Work for Unfinished Interpersonal Issues

11.2.3. Outline: Subtask: Working with the Collapsed Self

 

 

Micro-process Marker: Collapsed Self: Agrees with critic, expresses hopelessness

Route A: Accepting/Working with Hopelessness (Empathic Prizing task)

Route B: Encourage greater specificity in Critic (return to Stage 2 of Dialogue)

Client Micro-process

Therapist Responses

Client Micro-process

Therapist Responses

Deepen, differentiate hopelessness

•Empathic validation

•Heighten awareness

•Empathic conjecture

•Experiential teaching

Specify, heighten critic

•Request specificity

•Heighten criticisms

•Propose enactment of critic

Micro-resolution.  Access underlying growth-oriented aspects of self

•Listen for, support growth-oriented aspects of self

Micro-resolution. Self-assertive reaction evoked in Experiencing aspect of self

•Listen for, support self-assertive aspects of self

 

 

 

Materials designed to accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.

©2003 Robert Elliott, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, and Leslie Greenberg

http://www.process-experiential.org/learning